Review survival-type games, persistent avatar simulation games, and crafting games

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Just some related games and notes about their similarities and differences. Edit the comments for each game to keep it together.

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Minecraft

• crafting -
  • creating everything from wearables to vehicles to containers to tools to weapons, but
  • rather than recipe-based prerequisites, skills and experience reveals recipes
• open world and story
  • flat, non-desctructable
• characters persist after logout
• similar mobs and entities
  • more complex passive behaviors in Trade
  • fewer aggro "monsters" in Trade

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Stranded Deep

• open crafting
• Trade will not have man-made debris
• Trade will probably have less water to begin
• similarly destructible trees and plants
• cooking requires time and may be borrowed

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The Sims

• persistent characters with personalities and varied affinities
• attitude adjustments based on structures, satisfaction
• coached/guided character behaviors

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Oblivion

• building up skills through use
  • possible lessons in how system was gamed in Oblivion
• limited inventories with containers
• rich behaviors in NPCs similar to AI persistence
• loose class system

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Civilization

• Technology tree branches and weaves various prerequisites, but
  • in Trade, the future won't be visible (in game at least)
• bonuses from civic buildings